Originally Posted by
inlanikai
Well, the previous EF seat map version had 4 versions of vacant, IIRC: Clear white, blue with a P for premium, blue with a wheelchair for handicap and blue with an X for blocked. Four of your examples are the same functions but now that SG ratings are available, the colored tags are added consistent with the SG rating system. In one look, you see the nature of the vacancy and the first order SG rating.
Too much information in one icon? Maybe, maybe not. I find the efficiency a good thing but YMMV.
I don't necessarily agree with SG ratings; I have made advice from my perspective in the past and it has been ignored for whatever reason. I have given up.
So I would like the inclusion of TA data that optional, so I don't have to ignore it. Have the ability to stop themouse over info it fine, but I would prefer nothing remind me of SG/TA.
I am paying 100 bucks a year or so for the privilege to employ expertflyer. I have been a great supporter ot Expert Flyer since its inception, but I feel they have this one wrong.
My current subscription is active for a few months, but KVS is becoming more interesting.
Now back to the icons, The X blocked still exist and are obvious:
(Little different from before)
The "allocated" images are a joke in themselves, looking not much more than rows of small Lego blocks in a crowded seatmap. (see
jackal's post)
No my real issue is with the inclusion of Tripadvisor (Seat Guru) based cluttering images - I have already ad-blocked out the ad's in the expertflyer banner - I wonder how much TA/SG are being remunerated for clicks from the seat maps ... I will probably set up at grease-monkey script to substitute the images I don't wish to see with the basic seat map.
i.e. The images
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will be substituted with
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